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  • A Zombie Worm And Other Amazing Images From This Week (0) Dan Nosowitz and Rose Pastore Zombie Worm This horrifying worm is an Osedax, also called a zombie worm or bone-eating worm, for a pretty obvious reason: it lives inside the bones of dead sea creatures, like whales, eating and mating and doing all kinds of other gross worm things. I...
  • Earth's Core Is Weaker Than We Thought (0) Dan Nosowitz Earth's Core Wikimedia Commons Like so many of our own! No judgments, Earth. A new study in Nature Geoscience, from two Stanford researchers, indicates that our planet's super-dense, super strong core may not be as strong as we'd thought. It's ve...
  • Untouched For The Last Billion Years, Water In Canadian Mine Holds Ingredients For Life (0) Clay Dillow Water found deep in an Ontario mine could have been isolated and untouched for the last billion years. José Manuel Suárez via Wikimedia Scientists may have discovered the oldest free-flowing source of isolated water ever known. Scientists digging aro...
  • FYI: Do I Really Need My Pinky Toe? (0) Sally Zhang Toes! Dreamstime And without it, could I do everything a five-toed human does? Walking, running and skipping with just four toes may be easier than you think. "If you're born without a pinky toe or have an accident and it's removed, you can completely ...
  • Iran Unveils Absurd New Stealth Drone (0) Kelsey D. Atherton Iran's Hamaseh Drone Fars News Agency Weirdly, it bears a striking resemblance to non-stealth drones. Yesterday Iran unveiled the brand-new Hamaseh Stealth and Combat Drone. You can see it above. Note the non-retractable landing gear and externall...
  • The Week In Numbers: The Brightest Explosion Ever, A Ticket To The Moon, And More (0) Rose Pastore Gamma-ray Burst (Artist's Conception) Wikimedia Commons 3.6 billion light-years: the distance from Earth of a recently observed gamma-ray burst, the brightest explosion NASA scientists have ever seen $25,000: the fine internet providers face per ...
  • The Impossible Dream Of The Hindenburg: How Airships Were Going To Change The World (0) John E. Lodge The Hindenburg on fire at Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937 Nationaal Archief via Wikimedia Commons76 years ago today, the Hindenburg crashed over New Jersey, killing 35 people and ending the era of the airship. From the Popular Science archive, what it ...
  • The Week In Numbers: Size Of Saturn's Hurricane, Cost Of A Touchscreen-Enabled Home, And More (0) Rose Pastore Hurricane on Saturn This spectacular, vertigo-inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream fram...
  • Acer Announces Weird Folding Laptop With The Trackpad In The Wrong Place (0) Dan Nosowitz Acer Aspire R7 Hinge AcerAn easel-inspired hinge turns this singularly weird laptop into a tablet or an all-in-one. At an event this morning in New York City, Acer announced a slate of new gadgets, some boring (an iPad-Mini-sized Iconia tablet, a small...
  • Big Pic: What A Supersonic Aircraft Model Looks Like In A Wind Tunnel (0) Francie Diep Supersonic Model NASA/Quentin SchwinnTake a look into a supersonic wind tunnel at NASA This is a 1.79 percent scale model of a concept supersonic aircraft designed by The Boeing Company. You're seeing it through a window in the supersonic wind tunnel a...
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